منابع مشابه
Practical Reasons and Moral ‘Ought’
Morality is a source of reasons for action, what philosophers call practical reasons. Kantians say that it ‘gives’ reasons to everyone. We can even think of moral requirements as amounting to particularly strong or stringent reasons, in an effort to demystify deontological views like Kant’s, with its insistence on inescapable or ‘binding’ moral requirements or ‘oughts.’1 When we say that someon...
متن کامل'ought', 'can', and Practical Reasons 1
As intuitive as OIC might seem, we should acknowledge that the arguments offered in its support often do not warrant the sort of confidence many of us have in the principle. For example, friends of OIC often say that the principle is needed to explain certain linguistic behaviors. 3 Suppose Smith sees Jones sitting in a chair and Jones tells Smith that he has just been robbed. 'You ought to cal...
متن کاملPro-social cognition: helping, practical reasons, and 'theory of mind'.
There is converging evidence that over the course of the second year children become good at various fairly sophisticated forms of pro-social activities, such as helping, informing and comforting. Not only are toddlers able to do these things, they appear to do them routinely and almost reliably. A striking feature of these interventions, emphasized in the recent literature, is that they show p...
متن کاملAdaptive reasons for variation in sex ratios.
Ray and colleagues present data on variation in birth sex ratios among Ontario newborns, showing a significant male-biased sex ratio at birth among multiparous Indian and South Korean mothers. The authors suggest that women from these countries may be using prenatal sex determination and selective termination. However, there are plausible, adaptive reasons for variations in both individualand p...
متن کاملPractical adaptive quantum tomography
We introduce a fast and accurate heuristic for adaptive tomography that addressesmany of the limitations of priormethods. Previous approaches were either too computationally intensive or tailored to handle special cases such as single qubits or pure states. By contrast, our approach combines the efficiency of online optimizationwith generally applicable andwell-motivated data-processing techniq...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.999870